The Eye

The Eye is a supernatural thriller from directors Danny and Oxide Pang. In the film a blind girl named Mun, receives a cornea transplant. Mun is happy to have her vision back; Mun’s happiness turns to fear when she begins to see ghostly figures which foreshadow sudden deaths. She tells the doctors nephew about the strange things she has been seeing through the new eyes. The two of them go to Thailand to find out about the donor; Ling. Mun learns that Ling had similar visions. Mun also learns that Ling peers would look down on her. Ling had a vision that a huge disaster would occur and tried to evacuate the village; no one listen to her and hundreds of people were killed by an explosion. Ling hanged herself after the tragedy. As Mun spends the night in Ling’s old room she is possessed by Ling and makes her hang herself. Hearing Ling’s cries for help, her mother rescued her and the two come to peace. Ling spirit leaves Mun’s body. On the trip back home Mun and Dr.Wah are stuck in a traffic jam. Ling notices hundreds of black figures descend and realizes that a horrific tragedy is about to take place if she doesn’t try to stop it. She tries to get people out their cars but fails. The tanker that was causing the traffic jam leaks out gas which ignites into a huge explosion. During the explosion pieces of glass goes into her eyes causing her to go blind once again.

The films message appears to be that a person should not try and alter their fate because the end results might be worst then what they started with. Mun had a horrific experience after her transplant. At one point she pretended to be blind, which showed that she wished she hadn’t gone through with the transplant. Luckily for her, she ends up blind again when she is the most happiest.

I think the concept of Mun facing similar experiences Ling went through made the film interesting. The directors did a great job presenting the supernatural. The dead man in the elevator is one of the best scenes in the movie. A lot of the scenes were eye-opening, for instance, when the man showed Mun, the stapler after her transplant. Due to her blindness in the past, she couldn’t recognize the stapler. She could only recognize things by touching them. One other thing I thought was cool is when Mun is looking at the picture of herself and the little girl she doesn’t recognize herself. That’s when we then find out she has been seeing the image of the donor the whole time. The world is a beautiful place, even if there are bad things in it. Mun faces that realization in a supernatural way which makes the film unique.